This weeks DVDs (will send you the new releases after the segment today, ran out of time @ the hotel.) -Frozen (Oscar: Best Animated Film, Best Original Song) Synopsis: Featuring the voices of Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel, Frozen is the coolest comedy-adventure ever to hit the big screen. When a prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, Anna, a fearless optimist, teams up with extreme mountain man Kristoff and his sidekick reindeer Sven on an epic journey to find Annas sister Elsa, the Snow Queen, and put an end to her icy spell. Encountering mystical trolls, a funny snowman named Olaf, Everest-like extremes and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom from destruction. (c) Disney Dir: Chris Buck , Jennifer Lee Stars: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff Rated R, 1hr 42min, 89% on rottentomatoes. -American Hustle American Hustle received seven Golden Globe Award nominations; it won for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, with Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence winning Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture respectively. It received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay,[24] but did not win in any category. It was the second film since 1981, and the 15th overall, to be nominated in the four acting categories, the first being Silver Linings Playbook, which Russell also directed.[25] It was the first such film to not win any acting awards since Sunset Boulevard at the23rd Academy Awards. Synopsis: A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia thats as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, thepassionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irvings unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Like David O. Russells previous films, American Hustle defies genre, hinging on raw emotion, and life and death stakes. (c) Sony Dir: David ORussell Stars: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K. Rated R, 2hr 9min, 93% on rottentomatoes. (78% viewers) -Saving Mr. Banks Oscar Nom: Best original score Synopsis: When Walt Disneys daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers Mary Poppins, he made them a promise-one that he didnt realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disneys plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesnt budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history. Dir: John Lee Hancock Stars: Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Colin Farrel, Paul Giamatti, Bradley Whitman, Jason Schwartzman Rated PG-13, 2hr, 80% on rottentomatoes. -Mandela Synopsis: MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is based on South African President Nelson Mandelas autobiography of the same name, which chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the countrys once segregated society. Idris Elba (PROMETHEUS) stars as Nelson Mandela with Justin Chadwick (THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL) directing. (c) Weinstein Dir: Justin Chadwick Stars: Idris Elba, Naomi Harris, Rated PG-13, 2hr27min, 58% Vs. 72% on rottentomatoes. -Contracted Synopsis: After a one night stand with a random stranger, Samantha contracts what she thinks is an STD... but is in fact something much worse. (c) IFC Midnight Dir: Eric England Stars: Najarra Townsend, Matt Mercer, Alice MacDonald, Katie Stegeman Rated PG-13, 1hr24min, 47% Vs. 38% on rottentomatoes. -Here Comes the Devil Synopsis: HERE COMES THE DEVIL combines modern indie filmmaking and storytelling with a hint of 70s-styled psychological horror that may not just be psychological. Francisco Barreiro and Laura Caro play parents Felix and Sol whose preteen son and daughter inexplicably reappear after being lost overnight on a desolate, cave-riddled mountainside after a casual hike became every parents nightmare. The good luck and good fortune of their return soon changes, as the childrens behavior suggests ominous and unspeakable events the night the children were lost that continue even now. As a loving couple - and loving parents - try to care for and protect their children, the ancient and half-whispered legends around the caves and the mountain and those who have gone there before become too strange to believe ... and too dangerous, no matter how insane, to ignore. (c) Magnet Releasing Dir: Adrian García Bogliano Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Laura Caro, Michèle Garcia, Alan Martinez Rated R, 1hr38min, 41% Vs. 35% on rottentomatoes. -Reasonable Doubt Synopsis: When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden (Cooper) commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to manipulate the case to acquit the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitchs worst fears come true when he realizes that his actions freed a guilty man, and he soon finds himself on the hunt for the killer before more victims pile up. (c) Lionsgate Dir: Peter Howitt Stars: Dominic Cooper, Gloria Reuben, Ryan Robbins and Samuel L Jackson Rated R, 1hr31min, 13% Vs.26% on rottentomatoes. -Kill Your Darlings Synopsis: Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg in this biopic set during the famed poets early years at Columbia University, and centering on a murder investigation involving Ginsberg, his handsome classmate Lucien Carr, and fellow Beat author William Burroughs. The year is 1944. Ginsberg (Radcliffe) is a young student at Columbia University when he falls hopelessly under the spell of charismatic classmate Carr (Dane DeHaan). Alongside Carr, Ginsberg manages to strike up friendships with aspiring writers William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) that would cast conformity to the wind, and serve as the foundation of the Beat movement. Meanwhile, an older outsider named David Krammerer falls deeply and madly in love with the impossibly cool Carr. Later, when Krammerer dies under mysterious circumstances, police arrest Kerouac, Burroughs, and Carr as potential suspects, paving the way for an investigation that would have a major impact on the lives of the three emerging artists. Dir: John Krokidas Stars: Daniel Radcliffe , Dane DeHaan , Ben Foster Rated R, 1hr31min, 77%on rottentomatoes. -Kill Your Darlings Synopsis: Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg in this biopic set during the famed poets early years at Columbia University, and centering on a murder investigation involving Ginsberg, his handsome classmate Lucien Carr, and fellow Beat author William Burroughs. The year is 1944. Ginsberg (Radcliffe) is a young student at Columbia University when he falls hopelessly under the spell of charismatic classmate Carr (Dane DeHaan). Alongside Carr, Ginsberg manages to strike up friendships with aspiring writers William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) that would cast conformity to the wind, and serve as the foundation of the Beat movement. Meanwhile, an older outsider named David Krammerer falls deeply and madly in love with the impossibly cool Carr. Later, when Krammerer dies under mysterious circumstances, police arrest Kerouac, Burroughs, and Carr as potential suspects, paving the way for an investigation that would have a major impact on the lives of the three emerging artists. Dir: John Krokidas Stars: Daniel Radcliffe , Dane DeHaan , Ben Foster Rated R, 1hr31min, 77%on rottentomatoes.
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